semi-tatsama

English

Alternative forms

semitatsama

Etymology

From semi- +‎ tatsama.

Noun

semi-tatsama (plural semi-tatsamas)

(lexicography) A Sanskrit loanword in a modern Indo-Aryan language which has underwent noticeable sound change since its borrowing (having been borrowed earlier in the language's development).
- 1970, J. Bloch, Formation of the Marathi Language‎, page 160:
  Initial v can also go back to Pkt. v, arisen either from Skr. vr in vaṇ (vraṇa-) and the semi-tatsama vaḍvat (vrata-)...
- 1972, Jacob Ensink; Peter Gaeffke, editors, India Maior: Congratulatory Volume Presented to J. Gonda‎, page 194:
  In New Indo-Aryan currency the tadbhava and semitatsama forms of yakṣa and yakṣiṉī have come to mean demon and demoness, goblin or malevolent spirits of some kind.
- 2001, Rupert Snell, The Hindi Classical Tradition: A Braj Bhāṣā Reader‎, page 4:
  The tripartite scheme of tadhbava, semi-tatsama, and tatsama accounts for the majority of the words encountered in the texts included in this book; but loans from Persian and from Arabic (through Persian) are also commonplace, especially in texts which are not self-consciously based on Sanskrit models.

Translations

a word borrowed from Sanskrit earlier in an Indo-Aryan language's history and having since underwent change

Hindi: अर्धतत्सम m (ardhatatsam)

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